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Christian Emmanuel Sanon pleaded not guilty as his trial opened in Miami. The Haitian American pastor, 67, faces life in prison on charges he helped orchestrate the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Jury selection began Monday in U.S.…
Anne Hathaway has revealed she had to abandon plans to appear on “Hot Ones” after her doctor warned the spicy challenge could trigger early labor. Hathaway, 43, is currently pregnant with her third child with husband Adam Shulman. The Oscar…
Erika has spoken out after millions watched her juggle a baby and stadium food while her husband sat nearby at a San Francisco Giants game. The mother of two, whose last name was not published, issued a lengthy statement on…
Professional wrestler Benjamin Satterley has died at age 40, just one day after competing at AEW’s All Out event in Chicago. Satterley, known to fans worldwide by his ring name Pac, passed away Sunday night, All Elite Wrestling confirmed in…
A New Rochelle retailer has delivered a blunt verdict on the city’s once-vaunted downtown mall: “It just sucks.” The shopping center, New Roc City, opened in 1999 at 33 LeCount Place amid great fanfare and a nearly $200 million price…
Pope Leo XIV condemned medically assisted suicide as “false compassion” during a visit to Lourdes, France, on Sunday. The pontiff, 69, celebrated Mass at the shrine city before addressing healthcare workers and a large crowd gathered at the medical facilities.…
GoFundMe has removed a viral fundraiser that collected more than $700,000 for an 81-year-old Texas delivery driver after discovering the campaign organizer was posing as a neighbor. The platform’s Trust & Safety team learned that “Erin Howell,” the name listed…
GoFundMe has shut down a viral fundraiser for an 81-year-old Texas man and refunded all $281,000 in donations after finding the campaign violated its terms of service. The fundraiser had been created for Don Johnson, a Dallas contractor who returns…
Drs. Travan and Travis Jasper are now co-directors of the emergency department at Chippenham Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, returning to the same city where they once grew up without running water. The identical twins, who took the helm in April,…
Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten is reopening the investigation into seven Cornell fraternity members accused of drugging and gang-raping a student. Van Houten, the top prosecutor in central New York, said last week that his office now intends…
Prostitution-related arrests along Queens’ Roosevelt Avenue have plummeted 60 percent since new city leadership took over, even as the number of sex workers operating on the notorious strip has surged. NYPD officers logged just 193 prostitution arrests along the corridor…
María Consuelo Córdoba, 58, has abandoned her plan to undergo euthanasia after a Colombian businessman pledged lifelong financial and practical support. The Bogotá resident, who was left severely disfigured after her then-husband threw acid in her face 26 years ago,…
A British farmer has spoken out after alerting authorities to a group of masked men near a US bomber base, leading to five terrorism arrests. The unnamed resident, driving home through Whelford, Gloucestershire, in the early hours of Sunday, encountered…
Parents say an elite Calabasas prep school ignored warnings that a teacher was secretly photographing young girls because administrators dismissed him as gay. The $54,000-a-year Viewpoint School failed to act for more than a year after students and parents reported…
Twelve teenagers were wounded by gunfire after a birthday party spilled from an Airbnb into a Georgia park and turned violent, authorities said. The victims ranged in age from 17 to 19, Bibb County officials confirmed. Two remained in critical…
The body of a 26-year-old servicewoman was found inside a burned vehicle near Florida’s Eglin Air Force Base, base officials confirmed. Senior Airman Tamera Moniq Bolden-Cleckley, a diagnostic imaging specialist with the 96th Surgical Operations Squadron, was discovered Wednesday by…